Research Interests
  • Remote sensing of land cover change and fires in Indonesia
  • Quantifying vegetation and peat fire emissions
  • Modelling the transport and removal of fire aerosols (using the regional climate model (REMO) with tracer extension)
  • Assessment of air pollution and health effects caused by fires
Projects and Co-workers
  • EFEU : Impact of Vegetation Fires on the Composition and Circulation of the Atmosphere (BMBF-Project, April 2001 - December 2004)
  • INSIDE: Indonesian smoke induced by drought episodes (EU-Project, June 2004 - May 2006)
  • RETRO: REanalysis of the TROpospheric chemical composition over the past 40 years (EU-Project, January 2003 - June 2006)
Publications

Refereed publications:

 

 

  • Schultz MG, Heil A, Hoelzemann JJ, Spessa A, Thonicke K, Goldammer JG, Held AC, and Pereira JM (in press 2007) Global Emissions from Wildland Fires from 1960 to 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.

     

  • Spessa A, Heil A, Langner A, Weber U, and Siegert F (accepted 2007) Fire in the Vegetation and Peatlands of Equatorial SE Asian: Patterns, Drivers and Emissions. Ecosystems.

     

  • Heil A, Langmann B, and Aldrian E (2007) Indonesian peat and vegetation fire emissions: Study on factors influencing large-scale smoke haze pollution using a regional atmospheric chemistry model. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (1): 113-133; doi:

    10.1007/s11027-006-9045-6.

     

  • Murdiyarso, D., L. Lebel, A.N. Gintings, S.M.H. Tampubolon, A. Heil, and M. Wasson, Agriculture (2004) Policy responses to complex environmental problems: Insights from a science-policy activity on transboundary haze from vegetation fires in Southeast Asia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 104, 47-56.

 

 

Other selected publications:

 

  • Heil, A. and B. Langmann (2004): Influence of Indonesian vegetation and peat fire emissions on ambient particle concentration in the Southeast Asia region, J. Aerosol Science 25, Suppl.1, 619/620.
  • Langmann, B. and A. Heil (2004): Smoke haze from peat fires in Indonesia, Proceedings of the 12th International Peat Congress: Wise Use of Peatlands, Tampere, Finland, 6-11 June 2004, ed. J. Paeivaenen, 673-678.
  • Heil, A. and B. Langmann (2003): Atmospheric implications of Indonesian peat fires, IMCG Newsletter, issue 2003/3, pp. 26-30. (available from http://www.imcg.net)
  • Langmann, B., H.-F. Graf and A. Heil (2003): Smoke particles from peat fires in Indonesia 1997/1998: A model study, J. Aerosol Science 34, Suppl. 1, 608-610.
  • Nemecek, T., A. Heil, S. Erzinger and A. Zimmermann (2003): SALCA - Swiss Agricultural Life Cycle Assessment Database, Umweltinventare für die Landwirtschaft, Version 031a, May 2003. Report of Federal Swiss Federal Research Station for Agroecology and Agriculture and FAT, CH, 87 p.
  • Nemecek, T., A. Heil, O. Huguenin, S. Meier, S. Erzinger, S. Blaser, D. Dux and A. Zimmermann (2003): Life Cycle Inventories of Agricultural Production Systems. Final report ecoinvent 2000 No. 15. FAL Reckenholz, FAT Tänikon, Swiss Centre for Life Cycle Inventories, CH

  • Heil, A. (2000): The 1997-98 Air Pollution Episode in Southeast Asia Generated by Vegetation Fires in Indonesia. International Forest Fire News 23, pp. 68-71.

 

 

Selected Posters:

 

  • Heil, A., Langmann, B. and H.-F. Graf (2005): Forest and Peat Fires in Indonesia: Influence of Climatic Factors on Fire Emissions, Smoke Dispersion, and Air Quality, presented at the Wengen-2005 Workshop on Climate, Climatic Change and Human Health [PDF]
  • Langmann, B.,  A. Heil, H.-F. Graf, F. Nober (2003): Modification of cloud properties by peat fire aerosols in Indonesia 1997/1998: A model study, presented April 2003 EGS-AGU Joint Assembly in Nice  [PDF]
  • Heil, A. und W. Hegemann (2001): Aquabacterium gen. nov., the dominant drinking water biofilm bacterium, and their relation to copper. Poster presented at the International Conference on Biofouling and Materials, 10 – 13 June 2001, Frankfurt/Main, DECHEMA House.